Emi Kodama’s work explores the every day through stories that take shape in a multidisciplinary practice. Situated at the intersection of visual art and film, her work includes performance, installation, video, sound, photography, and drawing. Writing with a minimalism that emphasizes brevity and intensity, she attempts to be precise about the commonplace in a way that sheds new light on familiar objects and situations.

Originally from Vancouver (CA), Emi has been based in Belgium since 2008, where she graduated from the Higher Institute of Fine Art (HISK), a post-graduate program in Ghent. She has an MFA from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen (NL) and a BFA from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Enschede (NL).

Emi’s performances have been presented during festivals at Workspacebrussels (BE), Extra City (BE), and the Rotterdam Film Festival (NL). She has attended various residencies, which include Be-Part Platform for Contemporary Art (BE), Center for Art and Architecture Kanazawa (JP), and The Rooms (CA). She has worked in collaboration with artists such as Elias Heuninck for La Monnaie and Hans Demeulenaere for the Beursschouwburg. Her collection of short stories and drawings “If I Were You” was published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle in 2012.

Exhibitions, projects, residencies, and Screenings

2017

Dansand Festival, Mu.Zee, Ostend, BE

Artist-in-Residence, Art Centre BUDA, Kortrijk, BE

Art’s Birthday, M HKA, Antwerp, BE

2016

HISK Screening at Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE

Artist-in-Residence, Vooruit, Ghent, BE

Words, Words, Words…, 252 cc – cultuurcentrum Ekeren, Ekeren, BE

The Image Generator II, Extra City, Antwerp, BE

You make a better door than you do a window, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE